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Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in New Orleans, LA, into a family with a complex, often violent dynamic. He followed his father into the shoe factory business, where he met a man named Stanley Kowalski, after whom the famed character in A Streetcar Named Desire was named. As longtime collaborator and Streetcar’s first director, Elia Kazan, stated, “Everything in [Williams’] life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is in his life.� Streetcar opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on December 3, 1947. The cast included Jessica Tandy (Blanche), Marlon Brando (Stanley),